I should color one of my statements by saying that their more recent title announcements interest me, where-as they haven't in some years. I never begrudged them their sports titles because, well... Geez, there's a lot of sports out there, and their rosters change every year. So it goes without saying that if you make decent sports games and they sell, you make them every year. With DLC that model changes in execution, but the idea is still the same.
I yearned for more Ultima and Wing Commander when it became apparent they were dead, or dormant, or sleeping in Rl'yeh or something. I didn't damn EA, though, and I don't blame a company for making money. For all the internet copy-cat hate of Microsoft over the years, I never disliked Microsoft. Same animal.
EA changed their PR, but even that was a step in the right direction. At least, for someone who didn't hate them for making money. They put a better face on it. Whether it be marketing rhetoric, it's better than the iron wall of money starting at you, as a consumer. Mirror's Edge looks cool to me, which is more than I can say for most EA games I've heard of for a few years. Yes, it could release and suck, but at least it has my attention. Dead Space does, too, but something about it seems sketchy to me. Down-right platformy, even. Dunno how to feel about it yet.
Whether I'm buying the "good guy" talk by design is irrelevant, because I always respected the company. So naturally, putting a friendly facade on it makes it easier to do so, even if that wall of money is still standing behind it. At least that money is keeping our favorite IPs from flowing out into the market and being bought up by questionable hands (Interplay reference).
The basis of the 'risk' variable in my comparison. In which there technically was no comparison. Go figure.
Anyway, so how about that PC Gamer, huh? I wish they still made pull-outs of Lara Croft in lingerie.
Really. I do. Really.
I yearned for more Ultima and Wing Commander when it became apparent they were dead, or dormant, or sleeping in Rl'yeh or something. I didn't damn EA, though, and I don't blame a company for making money. For all the internet copy-cat hate of Microsoft over the years, I never disliked Microsoft. Same animal.
EA changed their PR, but even that was a step in the right direction. At least, for someone who didn't hate them for making money. They put a better face on it. Whether it be marketing rhetoric, it's better than the iron wall of money starting at you, as a consumer. Mirror's Edge looks cool to me, which is more than I can say for most EA games I've heard of for a few years. Yes, it could release and suck, but at least it has my attention. Dead Space does, too, but something about it seems sketchy to me. Down-right platformy, even. Dunno how to feel about it yet.
Whether I'm buying the "good guy" talk by design is irrelevant, because I always respected the company. So naturally, putting a friendly facade on it makes it easier to do so, even if that wall of money is still standing behind it. At least that money is keeping our favorite IPs from flowing out into the market and being bought up by questionable hands (Interplay reference).
The basis of the 'risk' variable in my comparison. In which there technically was no comparison. Go figure.
Anyway, so how about that PC Gamer, huh? I wish they still made pull-outs of Lara Croft in lingerie.
Really. I do. Really.
